TCC Chairman Kenneth Koo: "USC seems to be offering the best hope for both the industry and the environment.”

Here Came the Sun: Alice C. Parker and Gordon Roesler's Alternative Energy class puts on a brilliantly lit and highly successful demo

Viterbi team earns ticket to Warsaw to compete with world’s best student computer programmers

Yortsos' research in the maximized retrieval of hydrocarbons and oil in bypassed areas, and Paul's introduction of digital energy and integrated asset management to oilfield operations, transformed the industry.

USC Center for Geothermal Studies Director Fred Aminzadeh will work with the Institut Teknologi Bandung to train specialists

Alums gathered to network, share fond memories and learn about current research and work taking place at USC Viterbi.

Three young researchers from the Computational Learning and Control Lab demonstrate a superior grasp of programming gentle and accurate touch

Chosen through a faculty-led selection process, the five scholars will receive mentorship and funding.

Dean Yortsos visits over a thousand alumni, friends in Hong Kong, Taipei, Shenzhen, Shanghai and Beijing.

Burcin Becerik-Gerber of the Astani Department is probing the details of the "lives" of inhabited structures and hopes the results will lead to more than 20% savings in energy use

Beijing workshop and MOU signal new alignment between Viterbi and one of China's premier universities for petroleum study.

At a ceremony heralding Chinese car company BYD's arrival in Los Angeles, USC Viterbi signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Shenzhen Municipality.

Constantinos Sioutas learns that subway riders' air is worse than light rail riders', but automobile riders' air is worst

USC; Lockheed Martin, Inc.; and D-Wave Systems, Inc.; have teamed up to establish the first operational quantum computer at an academic institution at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering’s Information Sciences Institute.

Doctoral student Brandon Franzke is the co-author, with Professor Bart Kosko, of a paper that shows how noise energy can power certain important processes.

Viterbi professor Shri Narayanan's team receives an international award for a program that analyzes speech to detect alcohol consumption by speakers

BME doctoral student Juan-Miguel Ramírez-Rocamora compiled the best undergraduate engineering record in recent UNAM history

Viterbi professors showcased a broad spectrum of research to mark the occasion. Per a Memorandum of Understanding, USC will collaborate with the organization moving forward.

On Friday, Oct. 7, USC Viterbi School of Engineering’s Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Department presented its 2011 Laufer Lecture, hosting John Bush, Professor of Applied Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Shrikanth Narayanan is intensively developing new ways to use information technology to understand non-verbal action in children with ASD, couples and other subjects

Expansion of the iPodia network to the subcontinent is on the agenda, as well as recruitment of USC engineering alumni as faculty

One of the Viterbi School’s most distinguished faculty members spent his 75th birthday in Beijing at an event that underlined USC's international reach

John "Jack" Marburger (1941-2011) was a gifted theoretical physicist who had a major impact on USC engineering, recalls the USC Viterbi School's Martin Gundersen

Center for Energy Nanoscience director and USC Viterbi Professor Dan Dapkus welcomed researchers from 18 teams researching new ways to turn light into energy and energy into light

USC Viterbi School social networking specialist Kristina Lerman compares the spread of viruses with the "viral" spread of information

ISI's Yolanda Gil: "It is impossible to be prepared for every possible security breach, so we need to learn to do work while a network is under attack."

ISE's Shinyi Wu assembled a precise comparison of 91 recently tried ways to increase physical activity, from coaches to motivator phone calls to simple signs next to elevators

Viterbi School faculty and staff filled Town and Gown to hear their dean share a stirring list of accomplishments and set a lofty goal

Yannis Yortsos, Guiseppe Caire (EE), Michael Gruntman (ASTE), Qiang Huang(ISE), Bhaskar Krishnamachari (EE/CS), Aristides Requicha (CS/EE) and Milind Tambe (CS) honored

"His stature has been hugely influential in attracting top students and faculty alike to the Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Department," said AME chair Geoff Spedding

USC professor Naj Meshkati and colleagues help 50 Southern California commuter rail leaders study past disasters in order to learn how to prevent future ones

Algorithms for next gen wireless networks and improvements in real-time computer simulations put two Viterbi researchers into the latest Technology Review list of top under-35 innovators

When John Slaughter was a kid tinkering with electronics, he told 36 incoming Viterbi freshmen, "people who were black or brown didn’t think about being engineers"

Imagine the best students with the best faculty — all connected around the world under the banner of USC Viterbi’s iPodia. Stephen Lu already has.

"PetPal," an exercise-encouraging game created in 2007 by USC computer science students, contained a MEMS mini-app that is now up for licensing

Stefan Schaal and Gaurav Sukhatme welcome colleagues from all over the world -- including former students turned prizewinning researchers

Krystyna Miles of North Salem New York was one of 20 high school juniors who spent two weeks being briefed by high-level energy researchers and industry representatives

Dean Yannis C. Yortsos led a USC Engineering delegation to THU's Beijing campus, where the topic was “Green and Smart for a Sustainable Future"

USC Center for Computer Systems Security Director B. Clifford Neuman and ISI Director of Innovation Winnie Callahan attended Ohio honors ceremony

Jay Kuo to head IEEE-TIFS; Azad Madni joins ranks of INCOSE Pioneers; Milind Tambe earns more kudos for multi-agent security programs; Michael Waterman receives an honorary doctorate from Tel Aviv University; and Alan Willner reels in another IPS award.

The Lloyd F. Hunt Professor in the Ming Hsieh Department joined USC Engineering in 1974 and received the School's Faculty Service Award in 1981

ISI's Jeff Draper will be part of a large-scale DARPA effort to create tests to detect potential failures, inadvertent and deliberate, in integrated circuits

Larry Lim and Ben Louie of the Viterbi Center for Engineering Diversity administer a science- for-middle-schoolers program that bears astronaut Bernard Harris' name.

Ellis Meng, a biomedical and electrical engineering professor at USC Viterbi, stands at the bold crossroads of medical research as she seeks to find new ways to deliver and monitor drugs for patients through nanotechnology and wireless communication.

Theodore Berger's words — 'Flip the switch on, and the rats remember. Flip it off, and the rats forget,' — are repeated in media all around the world

Dean Yannis C. Yortsos and Azerbaijan Consul General Elin Suleymanov were part of a large celebratory gathering in the Viterbi Museum

"Flip the switch on, and the rats remember. Flip it off, and the rats forget," said Theodore Berger of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering's Department of Biomedical Engineering.

Latest accolades for Andrew Viterbi from three distinctly different societies reflect his breadth of talent, achievement and service to humankind.

Senior Associate Dean Raghu Raghavendra: “The program exposes the labs, research and faculty of the Viterbi School to exceptional students"

The Northrop Grumman senior VP already had an IEEE Ramo Award and was an NAE member. But he wanted to study with Barry Boehm

Gordon Roesler and Dorit Hochbaum will work with Lockheed Martin on DARPA's ‘fractionated' orbiter

Howard honors Slaughter, HKN acknowledges Krishnamachari’s early career excellence and promise, and Tambe-TEAMCORE-CREATE group gains further momentum.

A magical day as degree candidates turn into engineers and brand new alumni.

USC President C. L. Max Nikias honors the Viterbi School director of Pre-College Programs for "outstanding contributions to the enhancement of USC"

Gérard Medioni and Viterbi colleagues have have developed a system that can guide blind users along safe pedestrian paths it finds

Students show media and industry reps why USC is ranked #1 in academic game programs

Michael Crowley's computer science students worked on the web and computing needs of clients like Chrysta Wilson of the "Kiss My Bundt" bakery

Student ingenuity fostered by the Klein Institute for Undergraduate Engineering Life is on display on the Engineering Quad

Mann Institute Director Jonathan Lasch worked with the X PRIZE Foundation's Gianelle Veis developing the course.

"The RFB," a portable plane named from the initials of team mentor AME emeritus professor Ron Blackwelder, flew three missions successfully

Patric Muggli and his team will travel to the Facility for Advanced Accelerators and Test Beams (FACET) in Palo Alto to study the new generation of particle accelerators

Dragana Davidovic was first to be called to the podium, followed by Annie Yu, Andrea Armani, Ellis Meng, Hai Wang, Joe Qin, Angus McColl and Peter Beerel

Alice Parker and Chongwu Zhou use the single atom-thick carbon nanotubes to create a circuit that mimics the function of the synapse, the inputs to neurons.

The Viterbi School of Engineering was in the spotlight at the Mellon Mentoring Awards Ceremony, as five deans received the event’s top honor, and three professors won individual recognition

The USC Viterbi School safety expert expresses his opinions on the developing situation at the Fukushima facilities, on Chernobyl, and California nuclear power

The noted operations research expert is installed as the Epstein Family chair in a formal ceremony.

Department of Biomedical Engineering Chair, Norberto Grzywacz leads the interdisciplinary team as Principal Investigator along with Co-PI's from Stevens and CTSI

Peers praise Murali Annavaram, Alexandros Dimakis, Martin Eskijian, Terence Langdon, Andreas Molisch and Cyrus Shahabi

Hundreds of teenagers from greater Los Angeles came to USC for competitions aimed at applying academic learning to hands-on projects

Ryan Jansen and his research partner Eric Teegarden took a $500 first place prize in San Diego regionals and will move on to the finals in Nashville

Maged Dessouky, James Moore and other Epstein Department faculty play key roles in the interdisciplinary center that will be recognized for excellence June 15

The Abtum team, who hope to market a tunable cellphone transceiver chip, receives $50,000 prize from the hands of benefactor Fariborz Maseeh

Two dynamic and hugely successful technological entrepreneurs will address the graduating classes

A USC Viterbi team is working to help California growers compete in a tough global market

A Viterbi School computer science application is now making U.S. Coast Guard response boat schedules unpredictable to observers in Massachusetts

Engineering+ x 3: Orna Berry, Ronald Tutor and Chengyu Fu celebrated for combination of entrepreneurship with engineering excellence

Constantinos Sioutas recreates air pollution in the lab to directly measure damage to brains of living mice and mouse brain cells in tissue culture

His two-year term will begin June 29, 2011, at the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference

President Nikias gives personal letters of thanks to Representative Jerry Lewis and Senator Diane Feinstein

Internationally recognized leaders in systems safety will create a first-of-its-kind advanced safety program

Specialists in tsunamis and nuclear safety focus on California/U.S. consequences

Jernej Barbic joins NSF CAREER program; Malancha Gupta wins Innovation Award, Andrea Hodge takes Humboldt Research Fellowship

In the aftermath of the catastrophic events in Japan, the Viterbi School professor and others in the unit are widely quoted

He had a 32-year career at USC and passed away peacefully on February 14, 2011

The Annals of Biomedical Engineering reports that angiogram catheters created by "John" Tsung Hsiai detect dangerous plaque in rabbit blood vessels

The distinguished UC Berkeley professor emeritus presents a talk full of reminiscences and puzzle-solving to the keynote namesake and other coding celebrities

Peers honor Melvin Breuer, Leana Golubchik, Norbert Grzywacz, and Terence Langdon

Local high school students learn about engineering and infrastructure in the 17th Annual Popsicle Stick Bridge competition

Undergrads celebrate Engineers Week with fun and games, the Viterbi Ball and outreach to middle school students.

Mike Zyda's creative GamePipe Laboratory combines Viterbi student computer science talent with talented students from other schools

IIT-Hyderabad's Uday B. Desai and USC Viterbi's Yannis C. Yortsos signed a memorandum of understanding following the USC Forum on Globalization and Innovation

An industry audience is enthusiastic about the new realm of space: not outer space, but the space of people living and working together.

Dean Yortsos and a USC delegation visit Delhi, Agra, Mumbai and Bangalore for a series of events and initiates new collaborations

The Astani Department's Constantinos Sioutas and a host of scientists and engineers discussed the future of giant urban centers worldwide

ISI's Ed Hovy, Jerry Hobbs, and Hans Chalupsky were part of the effort to build the computer program that beat humans on TV's Jeopardy! gameshow Feb. 14-16

Students sit in with the noted Hollywood producer to gain insight into how engineering is depicted and presented on TV

RSA - from Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman - designates their dominant information security algorithm

Peers have recently honored Mel Breuer, Maged Dessouky, Solomon Golomb, Yan Jin, C.C. Jay Kuo, Daniel Lidar, Patric Muggli, and Theodore Tsotsis

The revolutionary retinal-device co-creator and the nanorobot pioneer will be inducted NAE members, the highest professional distinction that can be accorded an engineer

John Heidemann's USC team has turned its latest Internet census into a video and a special web browser. Bottom line: not enough addresses

250 local high school students participate in a full-day event that showcases and celebrates the engineering profession

The Viterbi School professor of computer science and senior associate dean for research accepted her honor at a White House ceremony January 27

Fariborz Maseeh is on hand as 15 highly competitive teams are selected to vie for the $50,000 prize

The event brought top recruiters from science, engineering, government and finance to meet enthusiastic student prospects

A team co-directed by BME's Alireza Dibazar built a alarm system that took a Homeland Security best paper prize in November and is now receiving further fine-tuning in Florida

The Ming Hsieh Department professor and his Center for Advanced Transportation Technologies will partner in the ‘Audi Urban Intelligent Assist’ project

A national meeting on USC Campus highlights first year achievements and research agenda at the newly named Center for Energy Nanoscience (CEN)

Kevin Knight of the Viterbi School's Information Sciences Institute is part of a team using a 'linguistic core approach' for machine translation of some of the world's less widely spoken languages

New funding will continue and enhance an effort that has made the Viterbi School a national leader in Cyber defense

Seniors Darryl Deweese and William Everton win second place at the Capstone Design Fair